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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16
Be Ready.

Whoever has seen the school of
arms that the soldier is put through
knows that moments count Every
motion must be quick, alert, nothing
tagging or ialtering. All that train
ing is for some moment Of need
that may not come for years.
The occasion of life come the same
way: in flteful moments, not to be
agreed upon bcforehand-but i'm
mediate, pressing, and that must be
either accepted with decision and
prompt deed or let slip.
As our Saxon secr-Shakspeare-
puts it
"There is Il tide in the affairs Of men,
Which, taken ut the Hood, leads ON to
fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows, and is miserics."
Moments, ii is too true, are the
only precious birthright we have,
and years upon years may find their
fruition in an unexpected instant of
our lives.
There is only one thing to do then.
70 get ready. If it was journey
you were going on you would see
the need clearly. But its more; it's
an occasion. You don't know when
it may come. There's nothing for
it but preparation and preparation
till the time comes.
What Edmund Burke called the
best years Of my life" are these years
of preparation-by books, by obser-
vation, by sharpening and putting
an edge Oh all our powers. Then,
whether fortune come from pulling
against the tide or floating on the
front wave with it, one feels equipp-
ed for their duty.
There's nothing pays so richly as
these gettings-ready. All the regrets
of lost opportunities come from un-
readiness. All these triumphs from
readiness.
Live among books, among your
comrades, do your duty as it comes
the best that is in you, look at every
thing you see, read or hear on its
side of reality and actual use, and
you're as ready then for doing your
best when the supreme moment
comes as though yon had years of
expectation of it.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16
Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness

We are getting along immensely
in these days, in reaping the fruits
of past wisdom and past sacrifices
and past hcrosim. If we weren't so
comfortable settled, and took them
so much rs matter of course, we
would almost rest content as having
got all the good things that were to
be got in living.
Two hundred and fifty years ago,
it wasn't safe to attend any church
you liked, even in England. You
risked imprisonment if you did
until Oliver Cromwell, the greatest
of English rulers, gave illiberality
its death-wound.
Two hundred years ago, man
printed II newspaper, and told the
news truthfully at the risk of inn
prisonment and confiscation of his
property; people lived in little better
than novels, and could be put to the
torture in the kings name. This in
enlightened England.
One hundred and fifty years ago,
kings were spilling blood like water
all over Europe, to determine per-
sonal quarrels, and in the United
States Indian wars made life in the
land II constant peril.
One hundred years ago, slave
trading was beginning to lose its
respectability, and clause to that
effect put in our Constitution. The
founders Of the Union asserted that
they had an inalienablc right to
''life, liberty, and the pursuit ofhap-
piness, and foughttill they got them.
But man might be dragged away
from his family and put in prison
for years for debt, though he was
honest as the day.
Fifty years ago you couldn't have
gone on above few miles journey
by rail, now you can go from sea TO
sea; nor send message by telegraph:
nor bought Il book cheaply; nor talk
ed 100 miles by telephone; nor lived
in house with all the conven-
fences of light, water and drainage;
nor sent your child to IL public
school without expense; nor worn
wooden cloth made in America, ex-
cept at great cost; nor given your
son practical training, to fit him
for business, at any college in the
land.
Why, it's only twenty-five years
since holding slaves was declared
illegal, and hardly that since we came
into possession of the power of cleo
tricity.
Do you see how far we have come
on the road to security of life and
liberty, and in the pursuit of hap
piness? And we're still going on.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16
Give Them A Chance.

That is TO say, your lungs. Also n.!l
your breathing machinery. Very won
derfnl machinery it is. Not only the
larger air-passages, but the thousands
Of little tubes and cavalies leading from
them
When these are cloggtd and choked
with matter which ought not 10 be there.
your lungs cannot half do their work.
And what hey do, hey cannot do we'll.
all it cold, cough, pneumonia. catanh
coniumption or any of the Eimily ~
throat and nose and head am lung oh.
structions. all are bad All ought 10 he
got rid of. There is just one sure way
to get rid of hem That is To take
Boschee's German Syrup, which any
druggist will sell you at IS cents bottle
Even if everything else has failed YOU.
you may depend upon this for certain.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16

As we rode along my companion
told me of the wonderful pair OF
what might be called physical prod
igies who lived II little further down
the road. They were young girls,
he said, whose weight was something
marvellous and fingers were as num-
erous as were the hands Of Briareus.
The father and mother of the pro-
digies were we'll known in the town,
and the children has created great
deal of interest. The father was
Edward Heisler, farm hand. In
few minutes we had ratified over a
grade crossing ON the Knox and Lin
coin railroad, and the horse WAS
pulled up before muchly-dilapida-
ted farmhouse. A lot of hay was
making in the front yard. There
being no other way to get to the
door we tramped over the fresh cut
grass. Through the open window
in room that appeared aiterward
to be the sitting-room, we could see
one of the peculiar girls. At first
sight she looked as though she
would weigh 300 pounds. She held
a palm leaf fan in one hand and
piece of unbleachcd cotton cloth in
the other. The fan she was lazily
swaying to and fro, and with the
cloth she was mopping the perspira-
ton from her face.
Was it hot enough for her?
Well, rather. Outside the July
sun was baking up the vegetation
and making the highways and the
surrounding country look like a Sa-
hara. Around the shady side of
the house it was 90. In that front
room," while the sun pouring his
hot rags into it, it certainly was
110o.
The girl said that the hot weather
annoyed her very much. "But you
ought to see my sister," she continu-
ed, "it just kills her"
Presently the sister and her moth
er came in. From the appearance
of the girls freshly watered head
and the newness of her gingham
gown suspect that the delay had
been caused by fixing up.
Was she Il prodigy?
Well, I should say so, that is ply
sically.
In what way?
First, because she is formed Just
like the deformed sister, who is three
years younger. They both have 70
fingers and - toes, one is II and
weighs 247 pounds; the other is IA
and weighs 219 pounds; the elder is
IS inches bust and 81 waist meas
urtment, the other is 60 and 4G res
pcctively;
The mother is II thin, cadavcrous-
looking creature, whose weight can
not exceed 95 or 100 pounds at the
most. The father is small in stat,
ne, and exceedingly gaunt and lean.
The Daily Ners, (Phila)
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16

Noah Harper, a negro living nine
miles cast of Mochanicsburg, Ohio,
beat his 12-year-old child so brutal
ly that she died within two hours.
He placed her body in box, and
was about to bury her when discov-
cred by neighbors. Harper fled and
has not yet been captured.
A visitor to the penitentiary at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, while casually
looking through the institution last
week, discovered in one of the pris-
oncrs n brother of his who had run
away from home at the age of seven
years, and was supposed by the fam
lily to be drowned.
The monument of Schuyler Col
fax at indianapolis will be unveiled
on May IS.
Deputy City Marshal Miller, on
the 9TH inst, at Peru, Ind, knocked
down Charles limerick, a lawyer,
who had made Il disparaging remark
concerning Miller's wife. While
limerick was down Miller kicked
him and broke his neck, whereupon
he was held in $4,000 bail to an
swer for Emerick's death.
A man in Kansas City has what
is thought to be the largest lemon in
the world. 1t is about the shape of
Il huge Irish potato, and weighs six
pounds twelve and one-quarter
ounces.
The juice of a frogs eye, is a new
Chinese anpsthctic not unlike cocoa
inc.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16
SPECIAL INVITATION SALE

Not mark down, but invitation that you will not he slow
accept We want to become acquainted with you who have
been in store So put prices Mems and
desirable Suits nadc this and just in soc) lower than
you before Eead of for stcass goods. All
reliable make Full lines No broken lots odds and
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16
Don't Exnerimant.

You cannot afford to waste time in ex-
perimenting when your lungs are in dan
ger. Consumption always seems at first
only cold. DO not permit anv dealer
to impose upon you with some chean
imitation Of DIR. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. hut
be sure you get the genuine. Because he
can make more profit he may tell Won
he has something just as good. or lust
the same. Don't be deceived, but insist
upon getting DIR. Kings New Discovery
which is guaranteed 10 give relief IN III
Throat, Lung and Chest affections
Trial bottles free at rcaton Smiths drnS
store, Newark, Del rs
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16

SONIC OI Her uh) dreams over ner
homely tasks.
cannot be a lady, she thought,
and John won't be IL gentleman /;
but l will try and pay my share of
the debts.
She had taken off her llounces
and hat and put on a plain dress
and large check apron before she
began to work, and she WAS rather
astonishcd, as her kichcn duties pro-
gressed, to find herself happier than
she had been since returned home.
When John came home to dinner
he was astonishcd to find Aunt
Mary quite dressed up, as she
blushingly said, in a clean print
dress and white apron, her dear old
face showing no sign of heat or wear
iness, while Daisy with added bloom
and bare white arms, was carrying
in the dinner
The new girl at your service, she
said saucily as she pulled down her
sleeves. Dinner is ready, sir.
But her lips quivcred as he bent
over her and whispered, God bless
you, dear Forgive me if l was too
hasty this morning.
John said but little us the days
wore on and still found Daisy at her
post. 1t was not in the nature OF
things for Aunt Mary to sit with
folded hands, but it became Daisy's
task to inaugurate daily maps, to see
that only the light work came to the
hands, to make daily work less a
toll and more Il pleasure.
And the Young girl herself was
surprised to find how much she en-
ioyed the life that had seemed to her
mere drhdgery.
John, bringing to his task the
same will and brains that had car
ried him through college, was inaug-
urating new order of things on the
farm, and made the work pay well.
Once more came Il June day when
Daisy sat in the fields, and John
stood leaning against the fence be-
side her.
Four years of earnest loving work
had left traces upon both young
faces, ennobling them, and yet leav-
ing them all the glad content that
rewards well-doing.
Many hours of self-denial both
had met bravely many deprivations
both had borne well. Daisy wore a
black dress, and upon the hat in
Johns hand was II band of Grape,
but through a sadness of their voices
there yet rang n tone of happiness
You love me, Daisy John had
said to her
When have | not loved you ? She
answered.
And you will he my wife ? Dar-
ling / have long loved you, but after
Aunt Mary was stricken down with
paralysis would not ask you to
take up new duties. Now she needs
you no longer. and you shall leave
the farm whenever you wish.
Leave the farm /! Oh, John, must
we leave it? ! thought it was yours
now.
SO it is.
And you have made it so bcauti-
ful, as well as profitable! Oh, John
why must we leave it?
Only because | thought it was
your wish.
1t would break my heart to go
away. I love my home.
And John, taking the little figure
into Il close embrace, wondered il
any city could produce Il sweeter,
dantier, little lady than the one he
held in his arms.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16

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II Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16
Saved His Life.

Mr. d. |. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave,
Ky, says he was, for many years, badly
afflicted with Phthisic, also Diabetes: the
pains were almost uncomfortable and
would sometimes almost throw him into
convulsions. lie tried Electric Bitiers
and got relief from first bottle and after
taking six bottles, was entirely cured,
and had gained in flesh eighteen pounds.
Says he positively believes he would have
died, had it not been for the relief afford
ed by Electric Bitters. Sold at fifty
cents a bottle ut Beaton Smiths drug
store, NeMark. Del. e
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16

What is now Annapolis, Md, was
originally named Ann Arundel Town
The present name dates from 1895.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-07-16

Robert T. Lincoln has signifed
his willingness to transfer the Abra-
ham Lincoln homestead to the State
of Illinois provided the State shall
agree to keep the property forever
in repair.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-28
The Measurement OF the Year

The length of the year is ~stric4,, u
days, 5 hours, AZ minutes, 40 ssso,'a
and seven-tenths of a second-tha IA
required tor the revolution Of the easa
round tie sun. Abont As b. G. .T,l,,a-
Cesar. by the help of Sosigines, =
Alexandrian philosopher, came e
toberably clear understanding az AZ
length OF a year, and deereed that l"
cry fourth year should be held 70 oos
sist Of 366 days for the purpose ~ -
sorbing the odd hours. BY this rathe.
clumsy arrangement the natural INN
fell behind the reckoning, as in real;tS
a day every fourth year is too mnoh J.,
IL minutes, 10 seconds; three-tenths
a second, so it inevitably followed tDss
the beginning of the year moved on'
ward ahead of the point a. which /
was in the days of Caesar. From ma
time of the council of Nice, in 325 4
d., when the Vernal equinox fell az.
rectly on the 2lst of March, POPE. 4, ran
DRY found in 1882 A. d., that there hs9a
been an overwhelming to the extaut
of holidays, and that the yernal eonincv
fell on the 18th of March. To corrac.
the past error he decreed that the KIN
of October of that year should be reck.
oned as the 18th, and, to keep the wear
right in future-the overplus beinc ls
hours, 81 minutes and 10 seconds n !
century-he ordered that every centep-
NAL year that could not be divided IL
four 11700, 1900, 1900, 2100. 22o6
should not be bissextile, as it other.
wise would be, thus, in short, dropping
the extra day three times every foupr
hundred years. While in Catholic
countries the Gregorian style was read
lily adopted, it was not so in Protestant
nations. In Britain it was not adopted
until 1852, by which time the discrep-
ancy between the Julian and Gregg
rian periods amounted to eleven DAYS.
An act of parliament wa passed dieta-
ting that the Sd of September of that
year should be reckoned the 14th, and
that three of every four centennial
years should be leap years. The year
1900 not being q leap year, the new and
old styles now d fer twelve DAYS, our
1st of January being equivalent to the
18th old style. In Russia alone Of
Christian countries is the old style re-
tanned. The old style is still retained
in the treasury accounts of Great Brit
ain. In old times the year was held To-
begin on the 25th of March, and this
usage, or piece of antiquity. is also
still observed in the computation Of
the chancellor of the British exchequer.
So the first day of the financial year is
the 9Th of April, being 'OldLady day
Boston Journal of Education.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-28
Art in New York Saloons.

What with turning groggerles into
art galleries, confronting the customer
with mahogany and mirrors at every
turn, and eve a~bolishing the bar itself
and compelling him to drink at a side
board, the drinker must begin to feel
compelled to maintain his dignity and
experience much discomfort at the
thought of behaving improperly in the
presence of such elegant furniture.
Mahogany has become SO common as
to be vulgar, and piano makers recog.
nizing the fact, long since abandoned
the brighter shades in cases, and now
put out only dark structures in this
wood. But the saloons are catching
this point, too, and at least one down
town liquor dealer has modelled his
business place accordingly. Instead OF
brilliant mahogany the interior walls
are sheathed with subdued walnut. In
other respects this saloon is unique. II
is very small. about twenty feet by
eighteen, but it is divided into three
departments: Bar proper, saltwater
and other temperance drinks, and
cigars. Besides these there is a special
desk for the cashier. and q little private
Office. The bar proper is separated by
partitions from the other departments,
and a fat, gorgeously-arrayed cash boy
travels between it and the cashier for
the convenience of customers who are
disinclined to walk across the room.
There are stock and news tickers in
the corners, one or two comfortable
arm-chairs. q shelf full of directories,
and the polite attendants. Incandes-
cent lamps, in clusters, illume the
place. A particularly interesting feature
of the furnishings is the c~igar-case.
The glass panels, instead Of being
fastened into nickel-plated brass rails,
are inserted in pearl rails. which glist-
en- and glow with all the colors Of the
prism. But the most interesting thing
of all about this little establishment is
that it is on that acre of land that is
the most valuable property in the coun.
try, and it is frequently asserted that
no site in the world is rated higher
the immediate neighborhood Of the
stock-exchangc along Wall from Broad
street to Broadway. Cor. Indianapolis
News.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-28
ROYAL Affairs of the Heart.

What an unfortunate thing it is to be
born a princess of royal blood. In
this republican country. where one can
follow out the ~inclinations of ones
own sweet will, one has little idea OF
the personal sacrifices that are entailed
upon a young man or woman born IN
the arms of the purple. In England
some of the members of the royal fam
lily are objects of common sympathy
with the entire ~populace, and their az
fairs of the heart excite the most uni
yersal interest and pity. Even at this
late day when the Princess Louise APP
pears in public-and the princess has q
democratic way of appearing out .
good deal in a semi-state Of incognito
that is very vexatious to her royal
mother-the old story of her attach
ment to her former tutor, handsome
Canon Duckworth, is being constantly
recalled, as the distinguished canon
has a way of suddenly looming up N
her vicinity. / remember being IN an
adjoining box to the princess some
years ago at the Savoy theater IN Lon
don, and during the entree act Canon
Duckworth who was in an opposite DoA
with a party OF ladies and gentlemen
came around to speak with the princess
and her party-an elderly lady INC 2
youngish man. Immediately half the
opera1glasses carried by the occupants
OF the other boxes and the stalls were
leveled upon the box in which sat the
princess, who, in a black lace gown
through which her fair neck and arms
showed, upon which jewels CLEANED,
apparently was quite unconscious no o.
the scrutiny she was undergoing. Inc
princess of Wales is always an opJecs
of tender interest, as she is lopularly
supposed to have been in love WITH ger
consort. The princess royai, VINO
married the crown prince OF Germany
has been the cause of considerable gos-
sip, owing to the reputation her olg
trooper husband has for INDUCING ~
choleric remarks. and q somcwnas
reckless disregard or social amenlt'es
as compatible with court etiquetle'-
Boston Herald.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-01-28
While she was debating the subject in

her mind the crisis came.
A storm had been sweeping over the
Bahamas, a vessel was going to pieces
upon the reef. Muriel was put upon
the waverwashed shore, her eyes bright
and her cheeks rosy with excitement
Her golden brown hair had been loos-
Gned by the driving wind, and she was
that rare but delicious creature, a
woman beautiful when she is mature.
Norman Van Ness was by her side,
and Muriel expressed a wish to row
out near to the li~fe-saving boats.
which were battling with the waves
and overladen with human beings
whom they had rescued in a half
drowned state.
Let me be your boatman," pleaded
Van Ness, and Muriel could not repress
her thoughts which whispered to her
of that long-fOrgOtten night when her
husbands murderer had been her boat
man."
The strong man took his place at the
oars. Out over the waters they rowed
together, the dreadful past rising so
strong before the woman that she had
no thought of the man so near her.
"Muriel," said he, in a low voice;
"Muriel, Muriel, l love you, but [ have
no right to say these words to you.
MurieI, have you e. thought that |
might be Ralph Resseguie?"
"Can it be?" she said. slowly. II
did not see your face by daylight, you
know"
"Yes, it is 1, a married man and a
murderer; but still l love you, Mu-
riel."
"And | love YOU" she said in a tone
of despair.
They were nearing the life-boats
now, and one of the crew shouted:
Ivan Ness" we cannot 90 back just
yet, and here is a man and woman
who need immediate attention, if they
are not already dead. We will put
them in your boat, and you can take
them ashore"
Ready hands laid the dripping bodies
in the bottom of the boat, and with
strong strokes and averted head Ralph
Resseguie pulled for the shore.
When they were nearing land he
glanced for the first time at his burden.
MY God, my wife!" he cried.
And Fred. Warner" said Muriel,
with a thrill of relief and horror.
1t was true. Fred. Warner had not
died, and the deed which had made
these two wanderers upon the face OF
the earth, had been a farce, after ali,
The days of the guilty pair on earth
were numbered. Mabel Resseguit
never recovered consciousness. Fred.
Warner lived a few days, long enough
to ask the forgiveness of the two ht
had wronged, and then expired.
Ralph R~esseguie and Muriel War
ner were married and returned t.
Muriel's old home, where, in the sun
SHINE of happiness, the dark days o.
their lives were forgotten. ChicagC
Mail.